Biography David Pryor Adickes

Sculptor David Adickes is known for a major project titled Presidents Park
in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he created 42 portraits bust of
American presidents. Each sculpture is twenty feet tall, and their size
was the subject of much protest and controversy. However, a court
ruling allowed them to stay.

Source: Art & Antiques, November 2000

Now mainly known as a creator of giant sculpture, Adickes spent most of
his professional life teaching, painting, and creating small
bronzes. A commission for Houston's Performing Art Center in 1982
marks the beginning of his giant sculpture design. After the
36-foot tall cellist called the Virtuoso in a cubist style, he
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